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StreamSage, a subsidiary of Comcast Communications, Inc. located in Washington, DC, is a leader in streaming media indexing and retrieval. We are currently seeking candidates for the position of Search QA Analyst.

This position is responsible for performing the qualitative analysis and interpretation of search results. This person will be a senior member of the QA team, responsible for the search quality metrics of the multimedia (audio and video) search service. This person will also assist developers with requirements to build scripts and toolsets to establish various metrics for search results, based on precision and recall. Additionally, this person will aid in other information retrieval evaluation tasks, including speech recognition accuracy, word sense disambiguation, and user interface testing.

Major duties include:

Gather and build multiple search results testbeds, including both content and question logs, and record relevant answers.